The 31st edition of the Ibero-American Cultural Festival will be held in Holguin from October 24th to 30th. Dedicated this time to the relationship between culture and sustainable development.
Organized by the Casa de Iberoamérica, the event will reaffirm its inclusive nature and commitment to the exchange of heritage, reflection, and the promotion of art in its most diverse forms.
The organizing committee, chaired by Isaíris Rojas París, announced in a press conference that nearly 100 national guests and more than 20 international guests from 12 countries. Including Brazil, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic, will participate. Sharing knowledge and artistic expressions in different spaces throughout the city.
The Ibero-American Congress of Thought stands out among the program, celebrating its 20th anniversary. It will feature representatives from the United Nations system, social movements from Argentina, and more than 100 speakers. Both online and in-person, with debates on topics such as albinism in Cuba.
This symposium, considered the backbone of the Festival, will pay tribute to Rigoberto Rodríguez Entenza, founder of the evento. And historian Eduardo Torres Cuevas will culminate with the presentation of the José Manuel Guarch National Research Award.
In the creative field, the Ibero-American Colloquium of Literature, the Ibero-American Audiovisual Colloquium. Also the Virtual Exhibition of Plastic Arts, the Iberoarte Fair, the Paper Artists’ Meeting, and the presentation of the Light Box project, a mini-library of covers by the artist Andrés Zaldívar, are announced.
Ernesto Ángulo Mesa, a member of the organizing committee, emphasized that the Casa del Taita cultural spaces. And the Iberian and Latin American and Caribbean Centers will be activated. In addition to activities in the city of Gibara, the municipality of Gibara, and Bariay. Where the call for entries for the next edition, dedicated to artistic education, will be launched.
The international participation will include Colombian poet and playwright Diego Despreciado. Who will attend for the third time and will give lectures on theater. The opening day includes a concert by the Holguin Symphony Orchestra along with the Cobre Steel Band from Santiago de Cuba. Morerover the commemoration of the 32nd anniversary of the Casa de Iberoamérica.
The Ibero-American Cultural Festival remains a meeting place for theoretical, expressive, community, and sociocultural events. Aimed at fostering exchanges and reaffirming its position. As one of the most representative events of Holguin and one of the most important of its kind in the country.
With information from the Cuban News Agency
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